In a block of billiards played yesterday in the Main Living Room of the Union, Jake Schaefer, world's 18.1 balkline champion, defeated Welker Cochran 250 to 69, and in a game of 3 cushion billiards he won over Cochran by a score of 15 to 13.
After the matches, both players gave an exhibition of trick shots, which drew round after round of applause from the spectators.
Approximately 450 people witnessed the contest, for which a special grand stand was erected.
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